Unreal!! We can't sue big Pharma if harm comes to us from vaccines, now, Monsanto is protected too. All these "sacred cows" under govt. protection.
So much conflict of interest too....how many Congress/Senate critters have interests in big Pharma? How many fat cats on the Hill were once employed
by Monsanto? Isn't the guy that runs FDA or one of those bs dealys a former employee or head of Monsanto? I'm sure I read such somewhere.

Is there such a thing as "safe" or "organic" anymore? Monsanto supposedly is in charge of all seed...Iraq and other countries overseas have been
made to use Monsanto seeds only. India farmers have been committing suicide over the mess over there because of how their farming got taken over and
screwed up. Are those seedlings we buy every spring from garden shops safe? Probably Monsanto product as well. Monsanto has plans to even be in total
charge of the worlds water supply. Rumors that they will even be getting their greedy, sick paws involved in peoples private water wells...putting
meters on them and have govt. regs for private wells and such. Making it illegal to collect water in rain barrels. Is any fruit/veggie garden safe
anymore? What about polinazation?(sp)?
Birds and bees and such going from crop to crop...seeds from Monsanto contaminating "safe" seeds maybe? Birds eat/poop seeds and spread them around
don't they? Even some scientists theorizing that the bee die offs are because of GM crops...the pesticides/herbicides inside the corn and other crops
actually killing off the bees perhaps?

Genetic corn...when we eat it, our guts become pesticide factories all on their own. High fructose....our body dosen't know the difference they
say...my tutu!! It is poison to the liver and kidneys. Farmers markets? Are they really selling safe "product" or do they often get their crops from
the same distributor that the stores do?

Rumsfeld sold us out by getting Aspartame put into our food supply as a sweetener/food additive. Before that, it was a Biological weapon of sorts.
Other sweeteners sold as "safe" have chlorine in them and explode when ingested. Yummie. Last but not least, the big flouride scam. When will it
ever end. Maybe when most of us are sick/dead, while the fat cats on the Hill get their food from safer sources...for now. Perhaps none of it will be
safe eventually. They get Lobster flown in and so called safe beef while we foot the tab and eat garbage. Nice one. The "safe" seed vault in Sweden
or where ever...really? Yet our seeds are not "safe" perhaps...hmmm.

But, but, look at all their awards and recognitions! www.monsanto.com...
What a joke! Just like giving Obama the Nobel Peace Prize!

So, this is truly no surprise.
When a CEO of Monsanto is on the Climate Change board, you know we're screwed indefinitely.
This bill involves more than just food.
Please check out this article: grist.org...

Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant sits on the center’s board of trustees, along with execs from defense giant McDonnell Douglas and pharma titan Merck.
Another notable board member is Alfonso Romo, a Mexican magnate who cashed in big during his country’s notoriously corrupt privatization
/liberalization bonanza in the early ’90s.

We need to be looking at Monsanto as well as all their bed buddies like Big Pharma.

And yet we just sit here and we take it. We just let them take a dump all over us. It's so obvious we are slaves. But we choose to stay and we
allow them to not only screw us, but our children and future generations and, our planet. This is so disgusting. How is it that so few can rule so
many? That so few can betray all of humanity and get away with it?? Why does no one get up and do something drastic? Why do we sit here, year after
year, moaning and complaining but do nothing? This is natural selection at its best. People, we better wake up and do something soon, because now
this is a fight for survival. We are their slaves. We are their cattle, and all the world is a distraction made just for us so we don't realize
these truths. These people are the worst of human scum. And none of us deserve to live if we allow this to continue!!

Originally posted by Under Water
And yet we just sit here and we take it. We just let them take a dump all over us. It's so obvious we are slaves. But we choose to stay and we
allow them to not only screw us, but our children and future generations and, our planet. This is so disgusting. How is it that so few can rule so
many? That so few can betray all of humanity and get away with it?? Why does no one get up and do something drastic? Why do we sit here, year after
year, moaning and complaining but do nothing? This is natural selection at its best. People, we better wake up and do something soon, because now
this is a fight for survival. We are their slaves. We are their cattle, and all the world is a distraction made just for us so we don't realize
these truths. These people are the worst of human scum. And none of us deserve to live if we allow this to continue!!

Ok, I think I'm gonna go have my period now...

You ask how this is happening? Because more people know who won American Idol last season than who won their local elections, that's how. Even if
you told most of them what is going on, a majority don't care and you can't MAKE someone care.

People are made to believe they are defenseless against these huge conglomerates, but this is by design.
If you'd read the article I linked to in my last post, you'd see that Monsanto, the Defense Department, and Big Pharma are all in bed together. The
million dollar question is: How do you fight this TRILATERAL marriage?

What kind of frivolous law suits might that be?
Cancers caused by these "foods"?
Sterility caused by these "foods"?
Loss of cattle, pigs, and other livestock because they aren't able to reproduce properly and farmers going out of business because of Monsanto's
inadequate "feed" and frankenseeds?
I guess you'll be happy when you can't afford that steak dinner you most likely enjoy.

Edit to Add: Why am I wasting my time on the Tiger Woods of "Compassion"?
Talk about irony, ego, and ignorance all rolled into one.

This is appalling.. I've been speechless over this since I found out it was even on the table to be voted on, now it's a done deal. Honestly.. I
can't even think of an adjective that describes my feelings.. maybe abject horror is close. This is unreal people. I thought the sterility findings
were common knowledge too, (I think it was showing up within 3 generations in pigs- I'll try to find the reports)
I do garden and have expanded it this year, but it's hard to provide everything one needs. I started experimenting saving my own seeds last season
and it is so rewarding. I'll happily share NON GMO, REAL plant seeds with anyone that wants them if I have successful crops this year!

I always look at the timing of these sort of stories in conjunction with what OTHER NEWS is being reported. GMO foods, and protectionism by the Obama
Administration of a campaign donor (with so many well placed ties to the Obama Administration ) as being "too big to fail" (ie, be HELD RESPONSIBLE
for the human consequences of GMO....well that's NOT NEWSWORTHY. But this Bill is signed hidden behind a whirlwind of Gay marriage media induced
frenzy (with some gun control sound bytes on the side)...but changing the very source of our life support--our food supply--not a big deal.

We are so played. Can't wait for Mrs. O to trot out (In $600 Lanvin sneakers) and tell us all to eat our GMO veggies--I honestly believe the
Twinkies outlawed in school cafeterias are SAFER than what they are endorsing as healthy.

Would Romney have signed the Bill? We will NEVER know...but to his credit...his wife never told us what our kids could in a school cafeteria. This
hypocrisy is ALL Obama.

(14) PLANT PEST
.—The term ‘‘plant pest’’ means any living stage of any of the following that can directly or indirectly injure, cause damage to, or cause
disease in any plant or plant product:
(A) A protozoan.
(B) A nonhuman animal.
(C) A parasitic plant.
(D) A bacterium.
(E) A fungus.
(F) A virus or viroid.
(G) An infectious agent or other pathogen.
(H) Any article similar to or allied with any of the
articles specified in the preceding subparagraphs.

SEC. 735. In the event that a determination of non-regulated us made pursuant to section 411 of the Plant Protection Act is or has been
invalidated or vacated, the Secretary of Agriculture shall, notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon request by a farmer, grower, farm
operator, or producer, immediately grant temporary permit(s) or temporary deregulation in part, subject to necessary and appropriate conditions
consistent with section 411(a) or 412(c) of the Plant Protection Act, which interim conditions shall authorize the movement, introduction, continued
cultivation, commercialization and other specifically enumerated activities and requirements, including measures designed to mitigate or minimize
potential adverse environmental effects, if any, relevant to the Secretary’s evaluation of the petition for non-regulated status, while ensuring
that growers or other users are able to move, plant, cultivate, introduce into commerce and carry out other authorized activities in a timely manner:
Provided, That all such conditions shall be applicable only for the interim period necessary for the Secretary to complete any required analyses or
consultations related to the petition for non-regulated status: Provided further, That nothing in this section shall be construed as limiting the
Secretary’s
authority under section 411, 412 and 414 of the Plant Protection Act.

What it says is that if a plant pest has a non regulated status and if that status is removed there will be a grace period under which farmers will
not be affected by the change in status. Say they've been able to freely grow and transport plants with a certain fungus which was not thought to be a
problem. Now that fungus, which was not regulated, now is. Without the ability for the Secretary to allow the interim period, those farmers crops
would be lost.

It has nothing to do with Monsanto. It has nothing to do with protection of Monsanto. It has nothing to do with GMO. You have been suckered in by
false claims and displayed your ignorance by not bothering to read what is easily available.

Originally posted by Carreau
The obama sycophants will not post on this thread, or will twist themselves into knots trying to justify or make excuses for this. Looking at the
graft showing the amount of Modesto people employed by the clinton and obama administrations this is no surprise.

I showed up but I don't think I justified it or made excuses. I think "I hoped" because I wasn't at the bargaining table. I know nothings sacred,
nothings not worth threatening or holding hostage for the GOP so you never know what was on the table. Don't address me and then speak TO everyone at
large because I'll show up to illustrate your inaccuracies, ignorance and lies.

(14) PLANT PEST
.—The term ‘‘plant pest’’ means any living stage of any of the following that can directly or indirectly injure, cause damage to, or cause
disease in any plant or plant product:
(A) A protozoan.
(B) A nonhuman animal.
(C) A parasitic plant.
(D) A bacterium.
(E) A fungus.
(F) A virus or viroid.
(G) An infectious agent or other pathogen.
(H) Any article similar to or allied with any of the
articles specified in the preceding subparagraphs.

SEC. 735. In the event that a determination of non-regulated us made pursuant to section 411 of the Plant Protection Act is or has been
invalidated or vacated, the Secretary of Agriculture shall, notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon request by a farmer, grower, farm
operator, or producer, immediately grant temporary permit(s) or temporary deregulation in part, subject to necessary and appropriate conditions
consistent with section 411(a) or 412(c) of the Plant Protection Act, which interim conditions shall authorize the movement, introduction, continued
cultivation, commercialization and other specifically enumerated activities and requirements, including measures designed to mitigate or minimize
potential adverse environmental effects, if any, relevant to the Secretary’s evaluation of the petition for non-regulated status, while ensuring
that growers or other users are able to move, plant, cultivate, introduce into commerce and carry out other authorized activities in a timely manner:
Provided, That all such conditions shall be applicable only for the interim period necessary for the Secretary to complete any required analyses or
consultations related to the petition for non-regulated status: Provided further, That nothing in this section shall be construed as limiting the
Secretary’s
authority under section 411, 412 and 414 of the Plant Protection Act.

What it says is that if a plant pest has a non regulated status and if that status is removed there will be a grace period under which farmers will
not be affected by the change in status. Say they've been able to freely grow and transport plants with a certain fungus which was not thought to be
a problem. Now that fungus, which was not regulated, now is. Without the ability for the Secretary to allow the interim period, those farmers crops
would be lost.

It has nothing to do with Monsanto. It has nothing to do with protection of Monsanto. It has nothing to do with GMO. You have been suckered in by
false claims and displayed your ignorance by not bothering to read what is easily available.

edit on 3/28/2013 by Phage because: (no reason given)

deny ignorance right?
funny how everyone itt is balls to the wall but doesnt stop to actually read what they're complaining about.

Many say we shouldn't be worried about the plant pests and then they present legal mumbo jumbo to us. Monsanto are not Saints by a long shot
regardless. The main concern should be how people will be affected in the long run by all the tampering and fiddling around with our foods. Aspartame
will be put in some dairy products now too. Monsanto may not have anything to do with that one but it is still another example of how our food supply
is fiddled with and we have no say in it.

Many of us DO try and speak up and stand up for what seems right to no avail. Writing letters to corporations, Congress critters, health depts. and
such...I've done that...many people have...with no satisfactory results through no fault of our own. Sometimes I think we have let too many big fish
get away with too much for too long and have now reached a point of no return. Anyone that thinks Monsanto are perfect and that aspartame and msg and
such are not a danger to us or problematic...wow, seems us folks that are concerned aren't the only ignorant, suckered ones. Monsanto may not have
anything to do with the food additives mentioned but they sure have a lot to do with seeds, and such. They have no business being involved in our
water either yet that is next. Tell the folks in India how great and innocent Monsanto is. A lot of the obesity problems and new and emerging
illnesses will be shown to be caused by all this GMO garbage. I'd rather pick a worm outta my corn rather than eat corn filled with pesticide right
inside of it. Those chemicals can't be "good' for anyone other than the corporations that make them. Roundup has been banned in other countries yet we
use it here instead of good ole fashioned white vinegar that kills weeds and even some pests when sprayed on. I'd rather have my yard smell like a
salad instead of a chemical factory.

Some folks may have misunderstood the legalise but that dosen't mean we still aren't right to wonder and be
concerned about what we eat and what is in it. As far as that goes, there are still things that need to be addressed and looked into.

I don't understand how what everyone else is eating/ using on their lawns effects you?
Sure seems to me like you know best for everyone, and everyones individual situations eh?
Change your own ways and others are left to fend for themselves.

People always think they know what's best for everyone else. What's right to you, might not be right for the next person.

Using the deceptive title of Farmer Assurance Provision, Section 735 of this bill actually grants Monsanto immunity from federal courts pending
the review of any GM crop that is thought to be dangerous.

Under the section, courts would be helpless to stop Monsanto from continuing to plant GMO crops that are thought -- even by the US government --
to be a danger to human health or our cherised environment.

If passed by congress then the 0.08% that signed the petition should whine to their congressman, not Obama.
So less than 1 person in every 1,000 bothered to sign the petition - just shows what people actually think about the subject.

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